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A More Transparent Clipboard Button

Copying long lines of text and shas to your clipboard has been just a click away for a few years now. Today we're putting a new face on that click-to-copy…

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Copying long lines of text and shas to your clipboard has been just a click away for a few years now. Today we’re putting a new face on that click-to-copy feature, making it easier to integrate with the rest of the site.

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Today we’re upgrading all the clipboard buttons to ZeroClipboard.

With ZeroClipboard we can glue the flash object (currently the only reliable way to put data in the clipboard) to any dom element we want, leaving the styling up to us.

Here are some examples:

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